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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

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Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. In the words of Sepp Hochreiter (inventor of LSTM , one of the world’s most famous and successful AI algorithms), “the ideal combination for the best time to market and lowest risk for your AI projects is to slowly build a team and use external proven experts as well.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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Accenture forges own path to improve attack surface management

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We’ve always had a strong security posture, but as we’ve been growing, we noticed that we had weaknesses in our defenses,” says Kristian Burkhardt, Accenture CISO. Burkhardt and his team first noticed gaps in their security posture when doing crowdsourced penetration testing.

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Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities

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For fire and police departments, getting teams on site can be challenging, what with the vagaries of traffic and bad routing. After years of development, the company is publicly unveiling its Knighthawk and Watchtower products. Back then, the focus was on building software to integrate with an off-the-shelf DJI drone.

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When is data too clean to be useful for enterprise AI?

CIO

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

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Freshflow is helping grocery retailers fight food waste

TechCrunch

The reasons manual reordering has persisted for this (fresh) segment of grocery retail are myriad, according to Mukhija — including short (but non-uniform) shelf lives; quality variation; seasonality; and products often being sold by weight rather than piece, which complicates ERP inventory data. revenue boost. million tonnes.

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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

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To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. It enables teams to deliver value faster, with greater quality and predictability, and greater aptitude to respond to change.

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